By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Here’s a caveat to mayors in Pangasinan and
even in the other parts of the country:
A lady chief executive of a first class town told me how she was swindled by another “mayor” when the latter told her that the governor asked him to call his counterpart that a P150 million budget for a slope protection project from the Department of Budget & Management (DBM) was being readied to be downloaded in the bank account of the town.
“Ka boses talaga ni Mayor!” the lady chief executive quipped to me.
The Hizzoner at the other end of the line told
her to send the amount to a G-Cash account number he provided as treat for the
two guys who relayed the message to him from the governor.
“Okay na ba Mayor iyong tig P500 o P1,000
sa bawat isa sa kanila?” the unwary lady mayor posed.
The caller told her to make it P20,000 each of the guys while she gives him (the alleged mayor) his share, too susmariosep!
The lady chief executive – who was travelling
in a vehicle – asked a department chief of the local government to tell the two
contractors to chip-in for the P60,000 to be given to the two guys and the
Hizzoner of the 2nd District of Pangasinan.
After the money was sent through G-Cash, the
mayor became frantic because she should have check first if there was really a
P150 million’s project downloaded by the DBM at her town’s public account.
When the department head checked there was
none. Kaput, nada, bokya, wala, anggapo, awan, naloko na!
It was estafa at its worse where the
malefactor used the skill of Willie Nepomuceno to duped the unwary lady mayor.
When the helpless department chief called
again the mobile phone of the culprit the following morning, it was already
deactivated.
The scammer, son of a gun, has been laughing all his way to the bank to encash the no-sweat six thousand crisped doughs.
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